"It's not the info Titty as you well know it's the twisting of stats"
No - that's not true. I've been told that I'm spouting propaganda and statistical nonsense when I mention the medical evidence on this subject, when I only ever refer to studies which are referred to in up to date midwifery textbooks produced by the Royal College of Midwives, or from NHS sponsored patient information. People will simply not accept that there is good quality evidence that there are risks associated with ff - no matter where the research comes from or who it's been vetted by.
"lack of sensitivity and basic lack of perspective over what is basically a parenting issue in a long line of parenting issues"
Bollocks that it's just another parenting issue. The almost wholesale switch to giving babies non-human milk is the most profound and fasted change in the whole history of human nutrition, a change that's been accelerated by intense commercial pressure and a devastating ignorance about the physiology of breastfeeding among health professionals. It's not equivalent to the dummy debate, or controlled crying, and frankly it's infuriating that people try to portray it as such.
"As has been said before we all know breast is best in the same way we know that a healthy diet low in fat is best.
No - it's no 'best'. Human milk is the physiologically normal food for babies. You can't compare this issue with any other.
"Unfortunately we can't always parent the way we want"
98% of women can breastfeed, given the right support and in some countries 98% of women do. If you want to breastfeed you should be able to do it, and if lots of people can't we should be shouting very loudly 'why the bloody hell not!' instead of encouraging people to think that breastfeeding failure is normal.
"Giving children a healthy diet with plenty of exercise whilst providing stimulating activities and limiting screen time will have far more of an impact on a child's future health than 6 months of breast milk. "
Actually - you really don't know this. Where is your evidence? The long term impact of infant feeding is an incredibly complex issue and very difficult to research.
"So lets keep things in perspective folks and quit with the scaremongering.No baby is doomed because it had formula and no child is guaranteed lifelong health because they were breast fed."
You call it 'scaremongering', I call it 'knowing what the medical evidence on infant feeding says'.
Some babies are 'doomed' because they don't have breastmilk. Do some reading on NEC, which is vastly more common in ff babies:
www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Necrotising-Enterocolitis-(NEC).htm
The Royal College of Midwives estimate that over a hundred babies a year die from NEC who wouldn't die had they had breast milk.
And then of course there's the link between higher rates of SIDS and artificial feeding. And higher rates of type 1 diabetes (which is a life limiting disease) and artificial feeding.
So even in the UK some babies WILL experience SERIOUS health problems associated with a lack of breastmilk.
And then you come along saying: 'it's all nonsense - don't worry - it won't make any difference to your baby'. And I say to you - how do you know? How can you give people these assurances? I know where I get my information from. Where does your certainty that it doesn't matter come from? Other than anecdotal evidence?